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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

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Since 1923 • For a greater Loyola

The Maroon
Eloise Pickering

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor

All content by Eloise Pickering
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[Photo] Pet evacuation bill protects strays from Hurricane Francine

Ava Dufrene
November 8, 2024
"Dix on South Rampart." Courtesy of Christine Harvey.

“Picturing Blackness”: Photo gallery honors New Orleans photographer

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor
November 8, 2024
Loyola student pets dog while volunteering for Zeus' Rescue as dog walkers.

Rescue shelter addresses overcrowding

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor
November 1, 2024
City prepares as election day approaches

City prepares as election day approaches

Eloise Pickering
November 1, 2024
Graphic by Daniel Garces

President Cole responds to student criticism

Eloise Pickering and Mark Michel
October 25, 2024
Loyola student Samantha Guillotte stands to the left of Loyola professor David Grunfled at the New Orleans Saints vs. Philadelphia Eagles game on Sept. 22, 2024 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, LA.

Who Dat? Photo students get to see Saints up close

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor
October 4, 2024
Simon Bunkers (left) and Juleea Bertholot (right) stand outside of Thomas Hall on Sep. 25, 2024.

[Photo] Protests leave two student ambassadors unemployed

Lily Bordelon, Staff Writer
September 27, 2024
Protester chants outside of Loyola president Xavier Cole's home on Sep. 18, 2024. This rally and march was to continue to call for university disclosure of funds.

A march to the president’s house

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor
September 19, 2024
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PHOTOS: Prep Panic

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor
September 10, 2024
Em Bay, Aria Norman-Gesuelle, August Bay, and Sophie Schnapp look out a Francis Hall window facing the Residential Quad.

Live updates: Campus, Uptown recover from Hurricane Francine

Sophia Maxim, Eloise Pickering, Heidi Herrera-Wanke, Anna Seriot, Matthew Richards, Jake Hufnagel, Sophia Renzi, Maria DiFelice, and Isabella Castillo
September 11, 2024
Mercy Hall set to welcome students by 2025

Mercy Hall set to welcome students by 2025

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor
September 6, 2024
Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (Eta Theta Chapter) and Sigma Gamma Rho, Sorority, Inc. (Epsilon Sigma Chapter) pose at "Letters in the Quad" Greek life event in the Peace Quad on Aug. 26. Over a dozen chapters attended the event organized by CPC President Asia Riddle.

Historically Black sororities foster service and community

Eloise Pickering and Isabella Castillo
August 30, 2024
Current and past Maroon staff stand together at the Press Club award ceremony.

The Maroon wins 16 Press Club awards

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor
August 30, 2024
Kloe Witt, Layout/Production Manager & Audio Director

Maroon reporter wins national award for uncovering ‘behind the curtains’ of Loyola play

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor
August 23, 2024
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[Photo] 30 Hours of Encampment

Kloe Witt, Managing Editor for Digital
May 3, 2024
Logo for the Jones X Macdonald Defense Committee. The defense committee was formed following the arrest of Toni Jones, who had her first court appearance on April 23. Courtesy of the Jones X Macdonald Defense Committee.

Protest organizer Toni Jones faces continued legal battle

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
May 2, 2024
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Encampment demolished, 14 arrested

Kloe Witt and Eloise Pickering
May 1, 2024
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LIVE BREAKING: SWAT nearly surrounds encampment

Sophia Maxim and Eloise Pickering
May 1, 2024
Pro-palestine protestors surround growing encampment on Tulane's front lawn on April 30, 2024.

[Photo] LIVE UPDATES: Palestine encampment develops at Tulane

Kloe Witt, Managing Editor for Digital
April 30, 2024
Pro-Palestine encampment persists into the night on Tulane's front lawn

Pro-Palestine encampment persists into the night on Tulane’s front lawn

Eloise Pickering and Sophia Maxim
April 30, 2024
The fifth Tulane Police Department station on Broadway and Zimpel, Aug. 22, 2023. A shooting that occurred at The Republic NOLA has sparked conversations about gun laws.

Republic NOLA shooting raises questions about gun legislation

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
April 18, 2024
The Capitol is seen as Congress resumes following a long break and the midterm elections, in Washington, early Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. The Environmental Protection Agency has declared a new rule reducing toxic emissions.

Chemical plants required to reduce emissions

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
April 18, 2024
OPINION: It's time for Taylor to take "swift" action for the environment

OPINION: It’s time for Taylor to take “swift” action for the environment

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
March 21, 2024
Logo for the Jones X Macdonald Defense Committee. The defense committee was formed following the arrest of Toni Jones, who had her first court appearance on April 23. Courtesy of the Jones X Macdonald Defense Committee.

Resistance erupts at Tulane protest for Palestine

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
March 21, 2024
Grace Nolan, program coordinator, leads team in shoveling and bagging oyster shells on March 2, 2024 with the Coalition for Restore Coastal Louisiana. The event works to combat rapid coastal erosion on Louisiana's shore.

Louisiana’s Oyster Recycling: Battling Coastal Erosion

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
March 14, 2024
Delegate from the Unites Teachers New Orleans makes an appearance at the labor springs event on April 21, 2023. Following Hurricane Katrina, several public schools were privatized or became charter schools, making the process of unionizing the schools much more difficult.

Loyola to host second annual labor spring

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
March 13, 2024
Door to the Women's Resource Center. Loyola's Women's Resource Center is hosting a series of events throughout March to celebrate Women's History Month.

WRC hosts events for Women’s History Month

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
March 7, 2024
Ignacio Volunteers cleaning trash in New Mexico during their transformative immersion experience volunteer trip. December, 2023. Courtesy of Loyola's JSRI

Loyola’s Ignacio Volunteers: Growing through community service

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
March 1, 2024
This May 16, 2015 photo shows oil drillings offshore of a service pier in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of Southern California near Carpinteria. The surface temperature of the North Atlantic Ocean are climbing at unprecedented rates. (AP Photo/John Antczak)

Ocean heat provides glimpse of warming world

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
February 29, 2024
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COVID-19 on the rise as students return from winter break

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
February 2, 2024
A float mocking Gov. Jeff Landry. This year's theme was AI: Artificial Ignorance.

[Photo] Krewe du Vieux floats make political commentary

Ruby Nieder, Life & Times Assistant
February 2, 2024
“Cribs,” containers made from plywood, hold the trees away from the shoreline to break the incoming waves near Lafitte, Louisiana. Sea otters returning to the marshlands of California has slowed the rate of erosion.

Otters saving the California marsh

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
February 1, 2024
The Capitol is seen as Congress resumes following a long break and the midterm elections, in Washington, early Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. The Environmental Protection Agency has declared a new rule reducing toxic emissions.

Iowa vetoes removing gender identity from civil rights law

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
February 1, 2024
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[Photo] French Truck employees unionize for safer workplace at Chartres St. location

Chiara Faircloth, Assistant Worldview Editor
February 2, 2024
The Krewe of Muses is an all-female krewe well known for their high heel throws. The high heels are a common trademark of Mardi Gras, and one that parade-goers strive to catch.

Loyola offers Mardi Gras safety tips

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
January 26, 2024
Students are seen walking near Loyola's campus on Fri. March 13, 2020. 100 year old veteran has walked hundreds of miles for charity.

Veteran walks for charity

Eloise Pickering, Worldview Editor
January 25, 2024
LUPD police car. LUPD is testing out a new dispatch system.

Attempted carjacking on Broadway campus

Eloise Pickering and Maria DiFelice
January 22, 2024
Nursing text books stacked on top of one another. Loyola's College of Nursing and Health was awarded a grant to expand therapy services.

Grant to support LCCE play therapy center

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
December 1, 2023
The Loyola sign on the university's front lawn is lit up by Christmas lights for Sneaux. Sneaux took place on the campus' front lawn, or "the horseshoe," on Tuesday Dec. 3rd, 2019.

Sneaux brings snow to Loyola

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
November 30, 2023
Money sticking out of someone's wallet. The wallet is in their back pocket.

Grants expand Loyola projects

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
November 30, 2023
Marion Schlosser LeBon (middle) sits with Beverly Garcia (left) and Doris McCutchon (right) in 1943. LeBon was the first female Editor-in-Chief of The Maroon and Garcia and McCutchon make the first female editorial board.

First female Editor-in-Chief takes over during WWII

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
November 10, 2023
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Safety blue lights labeled ‘out of order’

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
November 2, 2023
The Loyola community celebrates Loyola Week on campus with banners such as this one in November of 2010. Some of the activities during Loyola Week include a dodge ball game and a concert.

Loyola week events

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
November 2, 2023

Pro-Palestine protest met with opposition

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
October 28, 2023
Tampa 5 figure speaks at Loyola

Tampa 5 figure speaks at Loyola

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
October 26, 2023
A woman sorts her glass into recycling bins at Glass Half Full on Oct. 22, 2023.

Glass Half Full: Local recycling restores coastal erosion

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
October 26, 2023
Raymond Flanks speaking on the steps of the Orleans' Parish courthouse at the Rally Against Killing the Innocent by the Innocence Project New Orleans on Oct. 2, 2023. Flanks was exonerated after serving 38 years for a wrongful conviction.

Innocence Project New Orleans fights death penalty

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
October 26, 2023
Devante Lewis, Ariana Lonon, Michelle Hallinan, and Blu Dimarco at Banning Books in Louisiana panel on Oct. 4,2023. They were there to discuss the banning and challenging of books in Louisiana and answer questions by Loyola students and staff.

Loyola panel discusses book challenge

Eloise Pickering, Assistant News Editor
October 19, 2023
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